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v1.2.0 - Radio-Aware Monitoring and Smarter Updates

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openHop Repeater Integration 1.2.0 for Home Assistant expands radio monitoring, improves software update handling, and adds richer health diagnostics, dashboards, and automation controls.

Radio-Aware Monitoring

  • Added individual radio child devices with read-only configuration details.
  • Added radio ID aliases to preserve existing device names and entity identities when backend radio IDs change.
  • Added automatic retirement and restoration of removed radios, with permanent removal available when desired.
  • Added single-fabric support.
  • Added aggregate radio health and problem indicators for easier monitoring.

Smarter Software Updates

  • Added native Home Assistant update controls.

  • Update checks now run at one minute past each hour while respecting:

    • Backend caching
    • Active installations
    • Rate-limit holds

  • Removed GitHub-backed branch discovery from automatic polling.

  • Improved update status reporting with clearer states such as:

    • GitHub Limited
    • Not checked

  • Software that has not been checked is no longer incorrectly reported as up to date.

Expanded Telemetry & Controls

Added or improved support for:

  • Repeater-wide flood and direct traffic counters
  • Duplicate packet counters
  • Plugin health
  • Sensor/source freshness
  • Battery charging and discharging state
  • MQTT neighbor-publication controls
  • Advert scheduling
  • Neighbor-history controls
  • Longer-running action timeouts

Companion actions can now optionally return status and telemetry data for automations, with explicit errors when sends fail.

Dashboards & Automation

  • Reorganized the comprehensive example dashboard.

  • Added a new compact operations dashboard.

  • Added radio-health indicators and clearer update status displays.

  • Added 7 opt-in alert blueprints for:

    • Repeater availability
    • MQTT disconnection
    • Low battery
    • High temperature
    • Stale sensor readings
    • Plugin failures
    • Available updates

  • Expanded diagnostic redaction and documentation.

Compatibility

There are no intentional breaking changes.

  • Existing pymc_repeater integration and service identifiers remain unchanged.
  • Backend radio ID changes require an operator-confirmed alias to preserve identity.
  • Simply renaming a radio/device in Home Assistant does not require an alias.
  • Per-sensor freshness uses individual polling intervals when provided by the backend.
  • Older Repeater versions continue using the global polling-interval fallback.
  • Companion backend polling metadata changes are not included in this release.

Validation

  • ✅ 103 automated tests passed
  • ✅ HACS validation passed
  • ✅ Hassfest passed
  • ✅ Python Smoke passed
  • ✅ Live Home Assistant deployment verified
  • ✅ Existing entity identity preservation verified
  • ✅ Radio health monitoring verified
  • ✅ Dashboard configuration verified

Full Changelog: v1.1.6...v1.2.0

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